How Does Participation Work? Deliberation and Performance in African Food Security

P. Richards

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    Abstract

    Participation is considered an important tool of development. Two mechanisms of participation are distinguished - deliberative and performative. Deliberative participation is vulnerable to capture by elites. A postwar agricultural reconstruction project in Sierra Leone experimented with a performative approach to participation, Technological dynamics served to focus attention on alternatives to patrimonial value systems. The article advocates further experiments in linking deliberative and performative participation.
    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)21-35
    Number of pages88
    JournalIDS Bulletin-Institute of Development Studies
    Volume38
    Issue number5
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2007

    Keywords

    • sierra-leone

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